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Berchet, Peter

, a French artist, who practised in
England, was born in France, in 1659, and at the age of
fifteen was placed under the care of La Fosse, with whom
his improvement was so considerable, that in three years
he was qualified to be employed in one of the royal palaces.
In 1681 he went to England, where he worked under Rambour, a French painter of architecture; and afterwards he
was engaged in different works for several of the English
nobility. The ceiling in the chapel of Trinity college, in
Oxford, was painted by this master; he also painted the
staircase at the duke of Schomberg’s in London, and the
summer-house at Ranelagh. His drawings in the academy
were much approved but towards the latter part of his
| life, he only painted small pieces in the historical style, for
which the subjects were taken from fabulous history; -ind
his last performance was a Bacchanalian, to which he affixed his name the very day before he died, in 1720. 1

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